Fence-post anchor



(No Model.)

J; CARPENTER. FENCE POST ANCHOR.

Patented'June 9,!1885.

NVENTR- ATTEST anni triton,

FENCEnPOST ANCHR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 319,558, dated June 9,21885.

' Application filed March I, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom t may concer-nf:

Be it known that I, .IAMEs CARPENTER, of

Moravia, in the county of Cayuga, in the State of New York, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Fence-Post Anchors, of which thefollowing, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is afull, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the class of fencepost anchors which areapplied to the feet of slender metallic posts for the purpose ofsecurely holding them in the ground and sustaining them in an erectposition.

AMy invention consists in a novelA and simple post-anchor, which iscomparatively in expensive to manufacture, readily applied to the post,and capable of resisting all ordinary strains which the post issubjected to.

The invention is fully illustrated in the aunexed drawings, whereinFigure l is a face view of the anchor; Fig. 2, a plan view of the same,Fig. 3, a vertical transverse section on line w no, Fig. l; Fig. 4, anisometric View of the post-anchor, and Fig. 5, a View illustrating theutility of my invention in maintaining in the ground the posts of afence extended across a ravine.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Said post-anchor is composed, essentially, of a horizontal base-plate,A, from which rises a vertical wall, B, provided on its side or facewith a socket or postgripping devices, C G, into which the foot of thefence-post is inserted, as represented by dotted lines in the drawings.Said anchor is more particularly designed for posts of T shape incross-section, and therefore the gripping devices C C are made in theform of lips, which project from the wall B a proper distance apart toreceive between them the cross-bar or web of the T- shaped post and aremade to overlap and em- C, so as to dispense with the use of a core forforming the aforesaid socket, andwhen formed of wrought-iron I strikethe lips or grips C C up from the plate B, which may be readilyaccomplished by means of suitable dies.

To re-enforce the plate B, and compensate for the displacement of aportion thereof by the opening a, I provide the top edge of said Vplatewith a rib or ange, o, extended the length thereof. The plate B is alsostiffened by corner -braces Z b, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4 of thedrawings.

In setting a post with my improved anchor said parts are first united,in the manner hereinbefore described, and then set into a hole sunk inthe ground to the requisite depth, said hole being subsequently filledand the earth thoroughly tamped therein; and when this is done in aworkinanlike manner my improved anchor is capable of maintaining thepost in an erect position and resisting all ordinary strain it may besubjected to, and is also capable of preventing the post from beingdrawn out of the ground when situated in a ravine, and subjected to thestrain from fence-wires stretched from post to post at relatively higherpoints, as represented in Fig. 5 v

of the drawings.

Having described my invention ,what I claim 1. rIhe within-describcdfencepost anchor, consisting of a base-plate, a wall rising from saidbase, post-gripping projections on the side of the wall, an opening inthe wall back of the grips, and a relenforcing rib along the top edge ofthe wall, all formed in one piece of metal, substantially as describedand shown.

2. The anchor consisting of the base A and ICC

